Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who do their best but , for reasons for which they may not be to blame , are not temperamentally suited to deep involvement in the special problems of the elderly , may have other talents for caring . |
| 2 | For reasons to which I shall refer later I do not think that we should do that . |
| 3 | Anyway , if the right hon. Gentleman had remained in the Chamber , he would have realised that much of what he said was total nonsense , for reasons to which I shall turn in a moment . |
| 4 | Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him . |
| 5 | ‘ It makes no sense to regard ministers as any longer accountable to their national parliaments for policies on which they have been outvoted in the Council of Ministers . |
| 6 | Dexter loved watching press conferences for cases with which he was involved . |
| 7 | The third is the application of the second to concepts like ‘ pain' : words like ‘ pain' do not have meaning for us in virtue of standing for objects with which we become acquainted through an internal ostensive definition . |
| 8 | A specific grant allows central government to encourage local authorities to pursue particular policies by making money available only for programmes of which they approve . |
| 9 | Some of us are puzzled by this phenomenon , because it seems incompatible with another idea we cherish , which is that people must not be blamed for acts over which they had no control , nor held responsible for unfair gains when they have gained nothing themselves . |
| 10 | Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge . |
| 11 | One sees that X ( and Y ) alternates between intervals during which it oscillates about a positive level and ones during which it oscillates about a negative level . |
| 12 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 13 | Where the Crown Court is dealing with an offender for offences for which he has been committed for sentence under Criminal Justice Act 1967. s.56 , whether they are summary or either way , the Court must observe the limitations which would apply in the magistrates ' court to the sentence for those offences . |
| 14 | But language and interpretation assume a structure of values of which they form a part . |
| 15 | Its vision for society is that of a reconstituted pre-industrial kind of community in which everyone knows who they are , what is expected of them and the kind of values by which they are to live . |
| 16 | In this book authorities are said to be limited also by the kinds of reasons on which they may or may not rely in making decisions and issuing directives , and by the kind of reasons their decisions can pre-empt . |
| 17 | The pre-emption thesis will be readily accepted inasmuch as it concerns successful authoritative directives , i.e. those which correctly reflect the balance of reasons on which they depend . |
| 18 | Notice that a dependent reason is not one which does in fact reflect the balance of reasons on which it depends : it is one which is meant to do so . |
| 19 | George Orwell has a fascinating essay on this subject called The Decline of the English Murder , the title also of the paperback collection of essays in which it appears . |
| 20 | Following a series of projects in which it has been shown that mills and large warehouses may satisfactorily be converted into dwellings , some interest has been shown in the possibility of treating redundant factories similarly . |
| 21 | for Maxse , Bridgeman , and the great majority of Conservatives between 1906 and 1910 , the party , if it was to be popular , needed to embrace tariff reform and the gamut of policies with which it was linked , such as social reform and land reform . |
| 22 | He considers that many occurrences of phenomena to which we give diverse names like UFOs , ghosts , will-o-the-wisps , and apparitions of various sorts , may all be manifestations of earth lights . |
| 23 | Social groups may be divided according to the logic of objects with which they associate , which includes the objects ' autonomous tendencies towards pattern , as well as their physical constraints . |
| 24 | By this period he was seriously addicted to the tranquillizer , nembutal , and there seem to have been a number of objects to which he attached his fears — lifts and large animals among them . |
| 25 | Accordingly , the proposed Second Banking and Investment Services Directives prohibit member states from subjecting firms from other member states which wish to set up branches or provide cross-border services in their jurisdiction to their own authorisation requirements in the case of activities for which they are already authorised by their home member state . |
| 26 | The people over whom governments have authority , the kind of considerations which their instructions pre-empt and the areas of activities over which they have authority are all , to the extent that they are determined by the normal justification thesis , less extensive than the claims made by governments and by the law . |
| 27 | These six activity books provide children who are beginning to learn English with a wide range of activities through which they can practise English grammar and vocabulary , and develop their reading and writing skills . |
| 28 | The accounts provided in this chapter of the development officers ' work will have shown already the breadth of activities in which they were involved : assessing , visiting and supporting clients and their families ; recruiting , training and supervising support workers ; negotiating with other service-providers . |
| 29 | In short , capitalist states were becoming thoroughly entangled in a set of conflicts from which they could not easily extricate themselves . |
| 30 | Some distance from the rock on which we sat in conference conferring about the future of the world , if that does n't sound too pompous — an angsana stood , a large tropical tree , its branches full of birds to which I paid no attention . |